Unlike a virus or worm, which can cause severe damage to databases, a denial of service attack interrupts network service for some period. A distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attack can employ ...

DDoS attacks differ from Denial of Service (DoS) attacks in that they rely on different IP addresses. In other words, the attack comes from multiple different sources, rather than just one location.

Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) is a type of cyber attack that works by flooding digital infrastructure with numerous ...

Adyen (ADYEN:AMS), a multi-faceted payments provider, was hit by a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack last week. In ...

Services were disrupted for about eight hours over two days by a distributed denial of service attack, the Dutch company said ...

Anonymous, the loosely affiliated hacker group, has claimed responsibility for a distributed-denial-of-service attack against banking giant HSBC. The attack was launched last night at about 10pm ...

According to numerous Ukrainian government agencies, the disruption was caused by a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, in which websites are bombarded with a flood of garbage data ...

In computing, a denial-of-service attack (DoS attack) or distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS attack) is an attempt to make a machine or network resource unavailable to its intended users.